Overwhelmed by the things people have said about BuzzFeed UK News on here tonight. Quite apart from the scoops and the great writing, I think these things matter:

1. Unlike newspapers at the time we generally treated things happening on social media with the seriousness they deserved — we understood things that happened online weren& #39;t just an "internet story", they had to be treated with the rigour we& #39;d report anything else.

2. We realised there was a lot of weird pageantry around how news is presented. Tell the story as you& #39;d tell it to your friends in a pub; the internet& #39;s a social place.

3. We gave voice to minorities, we had a more diverse staff than anywhere else I& #39;ve worked in news. This wasn& #39;t a tick box thing, it was just the result of a hiring process based around who had the most interesting things to say.

I had few offers over the years and never took them up because I always thought it was important to contribute to one of the few remaining free news sources in the UK. But also, the amount of talent in that office was unreal. I wouldn& #39;t have missed the experience for the world. x